While officials of the US Education Department expressed concern about the results of the “report card of the nation”, given that it reflects the “heart -wrenching reality”, the village JB Pritzkar and Illinois State Board of Education expressed enthusiasm Did.
This is because the eighth graders of Illinois improved the national average in both mathematics and reading, according to the national evaluation of the educational progress results released on Wednesday. The governor said in Wednesday’s news, “Closing the achievement, the third through the eighth grader showed the highest English proficiency rate to date, according to Pritzkar,” Great Struids are making Illinois students academically, ” “It is a will.
Every two years for a sample of American children, the national evaluation of educational progress, also known as the “report card of the nation”, is considered one of the best gauges of the educational progress of the American school system. . The most recent exam was tested in every state in early 2024, fourth and eighth grade students were tested on mathematics and reading.
“Illinois students are proving what we always know – when we support our schools, our children thrive.” Achievement is possible. ,
Compared to 2022, the previous year’s assessment was published, with the Illinois eighth grader’s mathematics and reading knowledge, in which students were performed at the grade level or above. However, this year, he crossed the national average, only one state made him better. According to the report, 70% of the eighth-gradeers performed at the grade level or above, while 33% of the students gained proficiency, which is described as more “aspiration” level of performance beyond grade level in evaluation.
For the fourth graders of the state, 59% performed or above in both mathematics and reading, while 30 expressed proficiency.
Keeping a close eye, the students of Illinois performed well in mathematics, with 62% of the eighth grader at or at the grade level and at 32% or above proficiency, increased by six percent since 2022. .
The fourth grader also excelled in mathematics, with 74% performance at grade level and 38% of proficiency.
However, academic performance in the rest of the nation tells a different story.
This conclusion is another shock for American schools and reflects innumerable challenges that have enhanced education, a young mental health crisis from the epidemic school to a higher rate of chronic absence. The results of the national examination also show increasing inequality: while the highest performance students have started regaining lost land, less performing students are falling back and forth.
“The news is not good,” said Paigi Carr, Commissioner of National Center for Education Statistics. “We are not looking at the progress that we need to regain lost land to our students during the epidemic.”
The latest results found that many American children continue to lose ground on reading skills in view of the Kovid -19 epidemic and have slightly improved mathematics. This is still another shock for American schools and reflects innumerable challenges that have increased education.
The results of the national examination also show increasing inequality: while the highest performance students have started regaining lost land, less performing students are falling back and forth. Every two years for a sample of American children, the national evaluation of educational progress is seen as one of the best gauges of educational progress of the American school system.
In some bright places there was an improvement in fourth grade mathematics, where the average score increased by 2 points on a scale of 500. This is still 3 points less than the average pre-mahamari average of 2019, yet some states and districts made significant progresses, including in Washington, DC, where the average score increased by 10 points.
The US Education Department stated that the results are “heartbreaking” and reflecting an education system that is failing students despite billions of dollars in annual funding and is more than $ 190 billion in federal epidemic relief.
The department said in a statement, “The Trump administration is committed to providing priority to meaningful learning and providing universal access to high quality instructions to fully empower our education system.” “There should be change, and it should be now.”